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Htematopus frS,zari Brewster. Frazar's Oyster-catcher. [286.1.] 



Hcematopus frazari Bbewstbe, Auk, V, Jan., 1888, 84. (Carmen Island, 

 Gulf of California.) 



Range. — Both coasts of Lower California, rarely north to Ventura 

 County, CaUfornia ; casual on the coast of northwestern Mexico. 



Hsematopus bdchmani Audubon. Black Oyster-catcher. [287.] 



Hoematopus bachmanii Audubon, Birds Amer. (folio), IV, 1838, pi. 427, 

 fig. 1. (Mouth of Columbia River.) 



Range. — Pacific coast of North America. Breeds from Prince 

 William Sound, Alaska, west tliroughout Aleutian Islands and south 

 to central Lower California; winters from southern British Columbia 

 to Lower California. 



Family JAOANID^. Jacanas. 



Genus JACANA Brisson. 



Jacana Brisson, Orn., V, 1760, 121. Type, by tautonymy, [JamtM] 

 jaeana Brisson = Parra jacana Linn^us. 



Subgenus ASABCIA Sharpe. 



Asarcia Shabpb, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., XXIV, 1896, 86. Type, by 

 monotypy, Parra variabilis Linn^us = Fulica spinosa Linn^us. 



Jacina spin6sa (Linn^us). Mexican Jacana. [288.] 



Fidica spinosa Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 152. (Cartagena, 

 Colombia.) 



Range. — Rio Grande Valley, Texas, southern Florida, and the 

 Greater Antilles to Mazatlan, Mexico, and Panama. 



